May Day Sparks Protests Across The Globe

Thousands of people were rallying across the country on Monday in protest of President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

At least one protest has turned violent: In Paris, protesters threw "gasoline bombs and other objects" at police, while officers threw tear gas at the crowd and clubbed some demonstrators with truncheons, Reuters reports.

"Workers make everything happen", said Tom Linebarger, a 74-year-old retired painter who drove from Redwood City to take part in San Jose's rally and march.

Police said on Twitter Monday that anarchists destroyed a police vehicle, damaged numerous windows and property, started fires in the streets and attacked police.

More than 100 protesters were on the scene in Oakland demanding an end to the county's law enforcement corroboration with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the planned expansion of Santa Rita Jail and an end to the county's participation.

Prior to the election of Donald Trump, immigrant communities faced heightened levels of immigration enforcement and deportation, including the resurgence of home raids and the detention of mothers and children fleeing gender-based violence. "We should spend more money on education and less money on walls and deportation", Christie McKay, an education activist said.

"I'm an undocumented immigrant, so I suffer in my own experience with my family", said Quintero at a Lansing, Mich., rally.

"The more Trump attacks immigrants and dehumanizes them, the more the American people see the humanity of our immigrant brothers, their vulnerability and their contributions", Gutierrez said.

The events sparked at least four arrests after a human chain blocked a county building in Oakland, Calif., as demonstrators demanded the county refuse to collaborate with U.S. immigration agents, the Associated Press reported.

The first day in May has been a holiday for labor groups and leftist organizations for more than a century.

Other businesses that didn't close cheered on immigrant workers in other ways. "It doesn't matter if we are black, white, or brown, " she said. "It's morally unacceptable. This is the United States of America, founded built and inhabited by immigrants".

Later that month, the administration deported 23-year-old Juan Manuel Montes, who was granted protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that was created under Barack Obama.

"We have had confirmed cases of people showing up here, to be a good citizen (s), to be a good resident (s) of the state", she said.

A coalition of immigrant rights groups, labor and religious leaders has organized what they're calling a "massive" rally for 5 p.m.in Lower Manhattan.

Since 2006 the focus of May Day in the US has shifted to immigration.

Demonstrations are being held across the world to mark May Day. At Horner Junior High in Fremont, students, parents and teachers met at the flagpole to express support for schools, then walked together to class when the bell rang.

Despite the California clash, the initial rounds of nationwide protests were largely peaceful as immigrants, union members and their allies staged a series of strikes, boycotts and marches to draw attention to the importance of immigrants in the United States.

While union members traditionally march on May 1 for workers' rights in countries around the world, the day has also become a rallying point for immigrants in the US since massive demonstrations were held on the date in 2006 against a proposed immigration enforcement bill. Lauderdale, Florida, to Portland, Oregon.

Around the world, union members traditionally march on May 1 for workers' rights.

But the last time any May Day filled streets across the country with large numbers of demonstrators was in 2006, when more than 1 million people in hundreds of cities took part in a Day Without Immigrants to protest federal legislation that would have made it a felony to live in the country without legal status.